poison pill

n. an element introduced into the restructuring of a corporation so that it becomes undesirable for another corporation to take over. Acme Corporation approved a poison pill to prevent a hostile takeover.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sylwester	sil-VES-ter	Polish
Enlil	EN-lil	Near Eastern Mythology
Youko	yo:-ko	Japanese
Rosanna	ro-ZAHN-nah (Italian), ro-ZAN-ə (English)	Italian, English
Ricarda	['rika:dz]
Diamond	['daiəmənd]